Steele Brand

We serve the family.

We serve the republic.

And that's what I do.

So yeah, you can defeat a Roman army.

Alexander's going to defeat a Roman army.

But...

Livy's right.

You got 200,000, 250,000 or so Roman citizens that Rome can pull from.

So when Pyrrhus wipes out one army or defeats, he doesn't wipe it out, defeats one army, the next year he comes back and his advisor, Cineus, is like, they're like the Hydra.

They just keep growing heads.

They just keep...

generating armies.

And so that's exactly what would have happened.

He would have defeated one army, but then another army is going to show up and these guys are eager to get into the fight and they're going to slog it out.

And when they fight, because they're mostly heavy infantry, you got to kill every single heavy infantryman.

You got to kill the commanders because they don't want to go back home and say, I was the coward who didn't fight.

Because that's not good for their family, and they're not going to rise to the consulship.

And all the boys want to be the guys who can go back and tell good stories.

So you're going to see a lot of them die, which means they're going to be killing a lot of Macedonians.

And that's going to be unpleasant.